Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of Thurrott.com and the host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, Hands-On Windows, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via email, Twitter or Mastodon.

Paul Thurrott’s Recent Posts

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Google Seeks to Overturn Epic Games Ruling

Google's appeal of Epic v. Google begins today, with lawyers from both companies appearing before…

The gates to Google
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My recent YouTube "support" experience has made me question some online account behaviors I'd previously…

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Vivaldi 7.1 Comes to Android and iOS

Following its release on desktop, the Android, iPhone, and iPad versions of the Vivaldi 7.1…

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Sam Altman Discusses DeepSeek and its Impact on OpenAI

Altman admitted that OpenAI was "on the wrong side of history" when it came to…

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Microsoft Explains Deprecation

I mentioned to my wife that Microsoft was suddenly deprecating features more aggressively. She asked,…

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Samsung Revenues Up 12 Percent to $52.2 Billion

Samsung reported that it earned an operating profit of $4.48 billion on revenues of $52.2…

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Google Offers Voluntary Exit Program to Employees Working on Android and Pixel

This isn't as serious as it sounds, but Google this week confirmed that it is…

OpenAI Brings Latest Reasoning Model to ChatGPT Free

OpenAI Brings Latest Reasoning Model to ChatGPT Free

Today, OpenAI released o3-mini, the latest and most cost-effective AI model in its reasoning series,…

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Ask Paul: January 31 (Premium)

Happy Friday! January was a slog that somehow went by in a breeze, but I'm…

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Microsoft’s Improved Text Rendering Comes to All Chromium Browsers

Microsoft said today that the text rendering improvements it created for Edge are now available…

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Intel Revenues Fall 7 Percent to $14.3 Billion

Microprocessor giant Intel posted a loss of $100 million on revenues of $14.3 billion in…

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Apple Revenues Rise 4 Percent to a Record $124.3 Billion

Apple reported that it earned a net income of $36.3 billion on revenues of $124.3…

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Microsoft Earnings Analysis: FY25 Q2 (Premium)

And now, for something completely different. This quarter, an almost exclusive focus on AI and…

Microsoft Revenues Up 12 Percent to $69.6 Billion

Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $24.1 billion on revenues of $69.6…

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Microsoft is Now the Biggest Video Game Publisher

According to Amphere, Microsoft was by far the biggest video game publisher in the world…

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Judge Denies Apple Request in Google Antitrust Case

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta today denied Apple's last-minute request to allow it to represent…

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